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For days, I’ve been finding a solution to segregate my wireless router from the congested wireless network that seems to only appears around night time, 7pm to 11pm.

Initially, I ask for support from Planex, the brand of my wireless router and they told me the only solution is to find out which channels are congested and avoid those channels. The person suggested NetStumbler, a tool to checkout your friendly wireless neighbourhood.

So I hung up the call and went to download it. After I installed, nothing works. No data shown. I called the support again. And, this time, he told me that Vista don’t work with it. (Shucks!) Well, what’s new. I asked the person is there any alternative and his replies is “Netstumbler is the best freeware you can get”. Weird reply, I assume that’s a no. I hung up again.

Guess what’s next? Google! I google around, as always, and I found the simplest way to do it, without even installing a single software, thanks to Steve Clayton’s blog. Here’s how it works:

Just fire up your command prompt and type netsh. When the netsh> prompt show up, type:

wlan show networks mode=bssid

Now I’m able to see the invisible wireless neighbourhood and set it to the channel that nobody uses it.

written by mickeyckm

Many of us love to take photos. However, some of us didn’t have the luxury of DSLR and expensive software to assist us in fixing the overexpose photos. For some, they aren’t that photo friendly like the lady below. She looks great naturally but the camera expose too much of her skin details.

Not to worry, I found a nice, sexy tutorials to make your photo victims look like a model. Check out the sample below.

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The tutorial can be found at this link.

written by mickeyckm

I always wanted to give back to the society and lately, I told myself, “Why not teach the students on how to design and program a website?” In Singapore, not many have the web programming and design skills and I personally finds it very useful. Coincidentally, when I was back at home, my sisters wanted me to teach them how to do it. So I took this opportunity to try my teaching method.

Surprisingly, it’s much harder than I thought. There are so many things involved around this “Web” subject ranging from the technicality of web server technologies, web standards, HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, Javascript, etc. And most of them correlated. Chicken and Egg problem.

I began to wonder, should I take at a high level approach or a low level approach? A high level approach would to be give them a well-finish site, like Wordpress, and start exploring parts by parts when they want to make changes to the website, wherelse a low level one will be explain bits and pieces and relate it to them.

What do all of you think? Do you all have any experience in learning or teaching?

written by mickeyckm

I know I’m a little late in this, but I just want to share with those who didn’t know about the video tutorials for Adobe CS3. It’s really cool. Just for your information, Adobe just release their CS3 trial version for everyone to download and give it a try

written by mickeyckm